Raft starts you in the middle of the ocean on a 2×2 raft: four wood-and-plastic tiles and a plastic hook, with open water in every direction. There’s no land to gather from, so nearly everything you build starts as debris you hook out of the water as it drifts past.
This guide breaks the opening hours of Raft into focused walkthroughs, each covering one part of getting established: surviving your first hour, steering the raft, keeping fed and watered, unlocking the tech tree, harvesting islands, and smelting your first metal.
Surviving your first hour
Hook flotsam, craft the Building Hammer, expand the raft wide, and learn to read the current, all while keeping the shark from chewing up your foundations.
